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Haiti Garment Workers Deserve $15 Per Day
The weeks-long garment workers strike in Haiti is emblematic of international corporations promoting slave labor and putting profits above lives.
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Workers United – SEIU strongly condemns the murder of Shahidul Islam, an organizer who was killed for standing up for the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh.
Workers United – SEIU joins the global labor movement in strongly condemning the murder of Shahidul Islam, an organizer who was killed for standing up for the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh. Shahidul was a senior organizer with the Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF) and President of BGIWF’s Gazipur district committee. Shahidul was beaten to death in retaliation for supporting workers at the Prince Jacquard Sweater Ltd. factory, where BGIWF had been organizing for the last few months. Workers United – SEIU expresses its deepest sympathies to the family of Shahidul Islam and to our sisters and brothers at BGIWF. We stand in solidarity with these courageous leaders fighting for respect and dignity at work.
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Kutztown University food-services workers are trying to set the table for unionization
Pennsylvania Joint Board of Workers United, which wants to represent approximately 85 workers, has filed a federal unfair labor practice charge against food service contracting giant Aramark for thwarting at least one employee’s attempts to organize workers.
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Starbucks Tries To Slow Union Elections But Misses Legal Deadline By 8 Minutes
The coffee chain's legal team said Microsoft Outlook crashed as it was emailing the files. A labor board official didn't have much sympathy.
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Starbucks Is Retaliating Against Union Leaders, Fired Worker Cassie Fleischer Says
Starbucks worker who was fired from her job at the coffee chain's first unionized store says she believes the company is retaliating against her and others for leading unionizing efforts.
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Phoenix Baristas Claim Starbucks Spied on Workers, Trying to Bust the Union
Starbucks managers responsible for a bustling drive-thru location in North Phoenix are accused of employee surveillance and attempting to dissuade them against unionizing, federal labor records obtained by Phoenix New Times shows.
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Starbucks workers’ union drive, spreading across the U.S., has reached the company’s Seattle home
Workers at a Starbucks Corp. store in Seattle will hold a unionization vote, giving the labor group that recently won landmark New York elections a chance to expand its new foothold to the coffee giant’s hometown.
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